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Writer-director Lyle Lindgren’s documentary, Mouth Full of Golds, has been years in the making. After meeting Eddie Plein in 2012, Lindgren set out to tell the forgotten and largely unknown story of the Godfather of Modern Grillz. It was always intended to be a documentary, but when the pandemic hit, all that research turned into a book, which he self-published in 2021. Since then, it’s had a…

In this week’s episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we chat with the filmmakers behind the movie Kingston which premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. At the prestigious Kingston College, paths collide between a first generation student, the son of a billionaire, a noncommittal situationship, and a Chinese professor. The semester will shake the identity of each, and of the university…

Inspired by the acclaimed 2018 documentary of the same name, They Fight transforms a real-life story of mentorship and resilience into a moving boxing drama that is as much about second chances as it is about competition. Directed by Sheldon Candis, the film explores the difficult road to redemption through the eyes of Walt Manigan (André Holland), a man determined to rebuild his life while…

In 2019, writer-producer Pietra Brettkelly (Yellow Is Forbidden) left her home base of New Zealand and traveled to the Nigerian city of Kaduna, also known as “Crocodile City.” There, she met with a collective of prolific young filmmakers and decided to co-direct a documentary about their lives.  Executive produced by Idris Elba (Hijack), Crocodile centers on a group of Nigerian teenagers —…

In 1997, when news broke about the Heaven’s Gate cult members. It was one of the most true crime stories about cult followings since the Jonestown murders. In the haunting new film The Leader, directed by Michael Gallagher, he explores this real-life incident with an unsettling sense of restraint and dread and revisits that tragic chapter of American history through the eyes of its infamous…

There’s a restless energy pulsing through Kingston that feels impossible to ignore. The directorial debut from Carlos Key and Kalijah Rowe arrives with the urgency of filmmakers who have spent years observing the contradictions of higher education and are finally ready to drag them into the light. What results is an incendiary campus drama that’s messy in all the right ways, balancing biting…

The 25th anniversary of the Tribeca Festival 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most stacked celebrations of storytelling we’ve seen in years, and honestly? Cinephiles are about to be FED. Running June 3 through June 14 in New York City, this year’s festival is pulling out all the stops with 118 feature films, 86 short films, a record-breaking 103 world premieres, creator-driven programming,…